Hi HN! I am wondering if any of you is using a logging SaaS that you're happy with. I've been using logz.io but I am not impressed with it, and our team's research hasn't uncovered better alternatives.<p>In short, what we're looking for is:
- Some service to which we can push our logs.
- That will show our logs in their platform within 1-2 minutes of them being generated (almost real time).
- That provides a decent UI for querying logs using free text search and date ranges.
- That can let you set basic alerts to Slack.
- That doesn't cost an absurd amount of money (< 1000x on the underlying computing resources).<p>Based on previous experience, I don't want to run (or use) Grafana or Loki. I'd rather use a good SaaS and pay ~100USD/mo for a relatively small volume of logs.<p>Do you have any alternatives that you're happy with?
Many companies sit on some cloud/managed infrastructure that often provides internal logging, like AWS CloudWatch, which requires a bunch of tricks, configs, and smart logging strategies, but can be cheap even for hundreds of log streams and millions of log lines.
I heard about Datadog, and how good and expensive it could be.
I met many companies that use ELK or self-hosted Grafana.
I used Google Cloud's logs, which were quite good. Things worked as you'd expect and logs were easy to query. It was also very cheap.<p>When my company was acquired we started using Sumo, which is enormously overcomplicated and extremely expensive. I would rather gnaw off my own leg than use Sumo in a new project.